‎Behrens C.B.A‎
‎The ancien régime‎

‎TECHNOLOGIES OF LEARNING. APPRENTICESHIP IN ANTWERP GUILDS FROM THE 15th CENTURY TO THE END OF THE ANCIEN REGIME.‎

‎Turnhout , Brepols, 2007 Pictorial softcover, illustrated cardboard, 175 x 250mm., 305pp., b/w illustration. ISBN 9782503522708.‎

‎The importance of training and education is on the increase. While the production of 'human capital' is seen as a motor for a competitive economy, skills and expertise proof to be necessary for social mobility. Remarkably, in conceiving modern forms of 'apprenticeship', several mechanisms from the acien regime, seem to return. The difference between public and private initiative is disappearing, education and training is being confused, and in order to acquire generic skills as flexibility, communicability, self-rule, creativity and so on, youngsters have to learn -in context-. Even for maths, scholars now talk of 'situated learning'. Before the advent of a formal schooling system, training took place on the shop floor, under the roof of a master. The apprentice not only worked but also lived in his master's house and was thus trained and educated at the same time. In cities, this system was formally complemented by an official apprenticeship system, prescribing a minimum term to serve and an obligatory masterpiece for those who wanted to become masters themselves. Traditionally, historians see this as an archaic and backward way of training, yet this book's aim is to show that is was instead a very flexible and dynamic system, perfectly in tune with the demands of an early modern economy. In order to understand it fully, however, we should differentiate the informal training system organised via a 'free market' of indentures on the one hand and the institutionalised system of craft guilds on the other. In Antwerp, early modern guilds had a project of 'emancipating' their members. They didn't simply produce certain skills, but through a system of quality marks defended the honour of craftsmen. This is the difference with current practices. By representing hands-on skills as superior, guilds supplied a sort of symbolic capital for workers. New book. ‎

‎Art Auctions and Dealers: The Dissemination of Netherlandish Painting during the Ancien Regime‎

‎Lyna, Dries, Filip Vermeylen, & Hans Vlieghe.: Art Auctions and Dealers: The Dissemination of Netherlandish Painting during the Ancien Regime. Turnhout: Brepols, 2009. Series: Studies in European Urban History (1100-1800) Volume 20. 174pp., illustrated. Paperback. 25.5 x 18cms. A collection of 10 essays on the lively art market in the Low Countries before the French Revolution.‎

‎A collection of 10 essays on the lively art market in the Low Countries before the French Revolution‎

‎Art auctions and dealers. The Dissemination of Netherlandish Art during the Ancien Regime. ‎

‎Turnhout, Brepols, 2009 Paperback, original editor's jacket, english, XI+174 pp., 41 b/w illustrations., 17x25 cm. ISBN 9782503516202.‎

‎Studies in European Urban History (1100-1800). Studies in European Urban History (1100-1800) (SEUH 20). This collection of essays presents a status quaestionis concerning the dissemination of Flemish and Dutch art during the period 1400-1800, and highlights the role art auctions and dealers have played in this process. Auctions emerged as the primary channel for art sales at the end of the seventeenth century in the Low Countries and during the eighteenth century, countless local art collections were broken up and put up for auction. Especially (old master) paintings exchanged hands in great numbers at these public sales, and the finest pieces frequently ended up in foreign holdings. The activities of the professional art dealer form the focus of several essays. These intermediaries played an instrumental role in the commercialization and expansion of the art trade in early modern Europe. They had a profound impact on the history of collecting as they mediated and even influenced taste. Naturally, the role of art dealers changed over time. Therefore, the historians, art historians and economists who contributed to this volume have approached this phenomenon in an interdisciplinary fashion in order to properly understand how art markets functioned. In doing so, these essays explore the various ways in which art dealers helped shape markets for art, and how they facilitated the increasing volume of exports of Netherlandish art from the sixteenth century onwards. ‎

‎A bibliography of Salon Criticism in Paris Vol. I et II. From the Ancien Régime to the Restoration, 1699-1827Volume 1. From the July Monarchy to the Second Republic, 1831-1851. Volume 2.‎

‎ Cambridge university press, 1991. 2 tomes en 2 volumes, in-8 cartonnage d'éd. sous jaq., 263-302 pp., index. Texte en anglais. ‎

‎ Bonne condition. - Frais de port : -France 4,95 € -U.E. 11 € -Monde (z B : 18 €) (z C : 31 €) ‎

‎Christianity under the Ancien Régime (1648-1789)‎

‎Cambridge, Cambridge University Press 1999 xii + 270pp., in the series "New approaches to European history", 23cm., softcover, fine condition‎